The percentage in favor of allowing access to abortion if a woman wants one for any reason was 57 percent in 2014. In 2024, the share who would allow abortion on demand had risen marginally to 60 percent. All that upheaval, all those court cases, all that campaign rhetoric, only to barely move the needle. And when it comes to a complete ban, that number held steady around 20 percent for a long time until it noticeably dropped to 13 percent in the 2024 survey. That’s the lowest level on record. Abortion opinion in the United States seems impossible to really shift in a meaningful way.
